We call cinéphile a passionate of the 7th art. A "filmovore" able to watch a film a day to dream and develop a little more his imagination. If in the street you do not really recognize it, it is easily identified when you are close to it ...
- The cinephile has a collection of DVD boxes
You have the library full of books, it has library full of DVD sets. Download a movie, see it on VOD? Impossible ! The film lover likes to collect the films he sees, as to immortalize them a little more and make them alive. When the envy takes him, he only has to draw the DVD of his choice on the shelf and voila, place to a good "movie moment". The cinephile groups his DVDs by directors OR by actors according to his rate of mania.
- The cinephile does not like popcorn
Eating popcorn at the cinema? For a cinephile, it is a cliché. The cinephile does not lower himself to this kind of little habits. When he sits on his red chair, when the lights darken, the cinephile becomes asocial: he is alone in front of the film and does not want to be disturbed.
- The cinephile is only kissing movies
He does not take himself for an actor, but he acts as such. It gives him a genus. Do not be surprised if the cinephile is too romantic or too theatrical: he tries to reproduce in his own way the scene inspired by the kiss of As long as there are men .
- The cinephile knows all the choreographies cults cinema
If he knew only the cues, he would only be a half-cinephile. Dirty Dancing, Men in Black, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and why not the Karioka of The City of Fear , he knows everything, and all genres. And it hates when these are taken elsewhere, as in the Arnacoeur, for example. What he loves is true, authentic.
- The cinephile organizes a DVD evening a week (at least)
One week is the basis. For the occasion, his living room transforms into a mini projection room where the giant screen attached to the wall is the star of the evening. To avoid the routine, it creates theme evenings related to the news: an actor's birthday, summer season, vintage fashion, ... Everything is a pretext to organize a "DVD Party".
- The cinephile is a utopian
Since he spends most of his time watching movies, he starts creating films in his head. Sometimes he no longer knows where the boundary between his imagination and reality is. A phenomenon that can cause problems at work, in family and in a couple: when he does not take himself for James Bond, he takes himself for Belmondo way Professional , sometimes he plays the heads in the air to Pierre Richard, .. We do not know on which foot to dance.
- Film lover does not like commercial movies
Asterix and Obelix, The Visitors , Tomb Raider ... The cinephile does not eat this bread. The cinephile wants to enrich himself and learn through a film. According to him, a film must raise it, bring something to it, transform it, offer it a new vision of things ... While distracting it of course. But he refuses to distract himself in front of blockbusters.
- The moviegoer worships the great women of the cinema
Catherine Deneuve, Romy Schneider, Grace Kelly ... He loves them all for their beauty, character and talent. He knows all their films, their glories as well as their failures, they are almost part of his history.
- The cinephile is even interested in short films and other amateur films
What he likes in Cannes is not so much to see the stars scroll on the red carpet, it is rather to discover new emerging actors, talented directors, avant-garde films ... Same thing for the Caesars : he will be more interested in the short film than the big film that beats the records of entry into theaters.
- The cinephile is very critical
If you watch a movie with a cinephile you expose yourself to the risk of not understanding the film, just hear its criticism.
